PhD candidate Hal Young helps launch Leith Kino
PhD candidate in Film Hal Young is working with twelve members of the Leith Kino collective to launch a new, weekly community screening programme in Leith.
Department news
Professor Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Honorary Professor in the Department of Film Studies, Laura Mulvey, will receive a BFI Fellowship award.
Dr María Aimaretti, St Andrews Global Fellow, to join the Department in September
Dr Aimaretti will conduct the research project "Global Feminist Methods/Local Interventions: Towards a Non-androcentric Historicisation of Argentine Cinema," in collaboration with Isabel Seguí
Celebrating graduating students
This week the Department celebrates our graduating students, including four PhDs.
First prize at Marienbad Film Festival
Lucy Fife Donaldson’s work was selected as joint winner by the jury at Marienbad Film Festival.
Staff and students present at Screen
Department staff presented their work at the annual conference of NECS: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.
Staff present at NECS annual conference 2025
Department staff presented their work at the annual conference of NECS: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.
Audiovisual essays showing at Film Festivals in June
Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson has audiovisual essays showing in two festival programmes in June.
Stirring Queer and Trans Memory: Counterarchives and Peripheries
The final conference of Prof Glyn Davis' Perverse Collections project was held in Valencia, Spain, 21-23 May 2025.
British Academy Visiting Fellow, Dr Julio Gonzales
The Peruvian researcher will be working with Isabel Seguí on the project "Vinegared Images, Disappearing Histories: Safeguarding the Peruvian Newsreels Archive."